Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1911 — Untitled [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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Baseball soothsayers are predicting big things for the Cincinnati Reds. President Murphy of the Chicago Cubs is said to favor a new ball for use in the major leagues. Kansas City, too, has tabooed the handicap wrestling match as the wind-up of a big show. Christy Mathewson says Johnny Evers is one of the best ever at “getting the Other team’s nerve.” Dr. Roller says the world’s wrestling championship lies among “Hackenschmidt, Zbyszco and myself.” Wanted, by 16 major league managers, a pitcher whom no one can hit and a batter who can hit any hurler. Some clever eastern statistician has figured that Abe Attell makes about 140,000 a year taking on numerous short battles. Tony Biddle says the real gentlemen who take in boxing matches at highclass clubs should be attired in full evening dress. Kid Howard’s coming star, Mickey Sheridan of Chicago, and Paul Sikora of Detroit, fought ten rounds to a draw near Cleveland. An inquiring fan wants to know how to become an aviator. He might try “changing his ways” of travel and sprout a pair of wings. Eddie Collins is cutting his reportorial eye teeth and Ty Cobb is shapening his editorial material for use In case he\fajls Iq-make good in 1911. Michigan university’s football eleven is |13,000 to the good. Now some of the other colleges will want to have the rules revised. It Is a difficult task for pitchers to put strikes over on midgets. This is one advantage of being of diminutive stature. Owen Bush of the Detroit Tigers, the smallest player In the

American* league, received the mosfi bases on balls. Pitcher Walter Johnson Is a knocks out as well as a strikeout star. He) says Washington must pay him $7,000' for this season’s work. Counting the days until the major league teams start on their spring jaunts seems to be the principal pastiming even in St. Louis. Clark Griffith, manager of the Reds,' is out with the statement that the Na- 1 tlonal league race lies between the Reds and the Cubs this year. Both Coster and Attell,. who fought recently, are laid up for repairs. Coster is being operated on for appendicitis and Abe is nursing a fractured shoulder blade. Eight National league teams will try out approximately 250 players for 1911. How many of these phenomß will even have a chance to warm benches in 1911? Connie Mack, when he reached Philadelphia from an extended honeymoon across the Atlantic, refused to discuss baseball, hut admitted there was no place like home. “Red” Kelley, who lingered at the South Side just long enough to win the title “former member of the White Sox,” will coach the Notre Dame baseball candidates this year. A medical journal records 19 deaths and 400 Injuries due to the football season of 1910. It may be a fine sport, but it Is a poor cause to require the sacrifice of so many martyrs. The Highlanders’ new ball park will #eat 40,000, and the patrons are to have every convenience in the grand stand they get at first-class theatres. The grand stand will be three decks and 20,000 will be able to find seats there.